are american people are realy stupid as the rest of the world think of them?

Answer 1

Americans believe that we "deserve" access to all of the planet's resources that will satisfy our every basic human need. Clean water, nutritious food, safety from the elements and from the aspects of nature that frighten us are simply expected to be delivered through the stores or the airwaves without end.

Americans firmly believe that our needs cannot really be satisfied unless we can also waste most of those resources. This comes from our complete inability to ever understand the reality of "enough".

We want our food "super-sized" but we throw away large portions of what we buy. We want our cars huge, fuel inefficient, poorly designed and heavy in order that we can feel "safe" from the other huge, fuel inefficient, poorly designed and heavy vehicles that clog the roads and spew filth into our air. We then sacrifice our own children and the children of the world to keep the cost of that fuel low.

We want our swimming pools full and our lawns green and our behemoth, ugly station wagons clean .

We want to pour pesticides and fertilizers onto our lawns and farms but we don't want to be reminded where all that toxic crap eventually flows to.

Americans just don't give a damn how wasteful and ignorant they are. They just want to get home from work or school so they can turn the TV on and sink into the fog of "entertainment" and "news" that never makes them feel uncomfortable. Americans don't want to see how the rest of the world lives and the misery and desperation that millions of human beings face every single day so that Americans can continue to wallow in wasteful materialism and ignorant over-consumption. If possible, and the corporate media makes it all quite possible, Americans simply don't want to be depressed or made to feel shame for their consumption of the world's wealth nor do they want any images placed before them that might make them lose a moment's worth of slumber. Hell, Americans just want the rest of the planet's passengers to either go away or shut up and let us enjoy our greed and stupidity in comfort.

When an American is thirsty, we can just go to the refrigerator for a cold beer or soda or just to the tap for water that we know is clean and healthy. Of course, we also let the tap run for a minute or so to make sure that the water is also cooler. We watch that water go spinning down the drain and I would bet that not one in a thousand Americans can tell you just where that wasted water flows to.

For too many of the rest of the world's inhabitants, water is more precious than gold. When they must endure a drought, you never see American corporate or military might being called on to provide that treasured substance by drilling wells or donating filtration systems or any other assistance. Americans believe that they have no responsibility to help these wretches. Instead, all Americans can muster sympathy for is their own greed and their constant demands for lower and lower taxes and the rest of the world's needy can go screw themselves.

Well, imagine, if you would, your child or your grandchildren or your brothers and sisters being forced to make the most horrendous choices in order to just stay alive for a couple more hours. Imagine the people you love having to make the unbelievably depressing decisions that the dying human beings below have been forced to make.

Answer 2

I can't judge American people as a whole. I haven't met all of them. I have to say that the few I met didn't seem terribly bright, or at least they didn't seem to know much about Canada (don't we own you guys? What's a Prime Minister? I thought our President was yours too...) but this may be the fault of the American educational system/media. Maybe they think America's little sister to the north isn't that important...

I don't think President Bush is very bright to be honest, which I suppose doesn't say much for the majority that voted him in. But no doubt there are many intelligent Americans and many foolish ones which is the same with any country.

I remember when I travelled in Europe, I displayed my Canadian flag proudly on my backpack. Apparently everyone loves Canadians & hates Americans. At one hotel where I stayed in Paris, I politely asked for a room using my high school french (Canada strives to be somewhat bilingual). A guy sauntered in larger than life with a Texan accent & demanded a room, in English & was frustrated when they didn't understand him...I think it's a perception that Canadians are more accomodating (aka wimpy) & Americans more obnoxious (aggressive). Americans seem to have a greater sense of entitlement. But again these are generalities & likely unfair...When I was at the Tower Bridge in London, one of the tour guides told me this joke: "What do you call an intelligent American? A Canadian!"

It's funny because accents can make people sound more or less intelligent. British accents often sound very sophisticated & smart. A southern drawl can make someone sound less intelligent or sophisticated regardless of what they're actually saying. It's that whole hillbilly thing...

Anyway, I suppose America may have gotten a bit of a bad reputation around the world. The bottom line is that America is the most powerful country in the world so they must be doing something right. They're smart (& arguably aggressive & violent & manipulative & underhanded) enough to take over the world...

I live in Canada. I love my country. I don't mind being the little sister to the most powerful nation in the world. & yes, Canadians are as nice as the rest of the world thinks of them!

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Answer 3

Individually, there is intelligent life in America... collectively on the other hand... :P ...... lets just say it remains to be seen. LOL.

Some things America does in a collective sense are very unbecoming of an educated society. The levels of violence, idolatry and pretense over there look reaaaalllly bad from where I stand.. plus there is a clearly degenerate tendency to excess, ignorance and cruelty to it's own and sundry embedded pretty basically in the culture and that is world reknowned.

Guns are loved and treasured more than children, and appearances are valued rather more than substance right across the board. Biblephiles that choose their political stance based on several thousand year old histories of middle eastern society are not the best representatives of an intelligent rational people, but to their credit there are a lot of Americans who do know this and figured out how to switch off the Faux Noise just in time.

I'd believe America had smartened up when I see from them less flagrant parading of gratituity pretending to be culture, a simple appreciation of the fact that they live in a country that doesn't like to help others out AT ALL .. and maybe that could change one day... but for now, lying to themselves is no substitute and it reflects poorly; less of them whiling away years to come up with wild intangible theories to explain why they were never involved in any stupid thing they've ever done as a human being..... and when I see a few less eyes on the stock market paper dragon and a few more eyes on the real world over there... there will be hope for the US.

And maybe for the rest of us too. We have our own dramas to sort.

Answer 4

The average American person isn't stupid. Sterotypically, however, even 'one of money' is very ill educated.

Granted, our education systems aren't like that of many other countries. However, the grade level, subject, and curriculum depends on who ranks highest.

If we're talking about the general attitude of an American, it's true a large part of the population takes a heavy "me" attitude. And in large groups they take an aggressive patriotic attitude.

It's true, a large portion have no idea what real poverty is and even some of those who do know are still very self oriented. However, this attitude isn't stupidity, it's ignorance. We have grown up in generations of "The American Dream" and we even ignore our own people in pursuit of that... or we blame the victims saying, "If they had done something different, they wouldn't be in that position."

On the other hand, if given the opportunity, the people will come together and support one another with a ferocious generosity.

American's, I believe, are conflicted with a dual idea of what living life is about. Between "The American Dream" where we all stand on our own two feet and generations of embedded morals which say we should give and love, accept and forgive, understand and help American's are lost inside themselves. Which is what I believe attributes to much of the "me first" attitude.

Answer 5

this is 2 assumings-there are all types of Americans-in America there is a priority to help those with low IQ's not offered in much of the rest of the world-from school and on.
Most of the rest of the world would like to be like America and has English as a secondary language-

if you chose to look for stupid people you will find them-and yet even dumb people in America get welfare benifits to help them called social security. What does your country offer and is there envy in your country and name calling of Americans as a whole there too?

Answer 6

Take a moment to read your question.

1. We see that the word "American" is NOT capitalized, but it should be.

2. We see that the word "realy" is misspelled; it should be "really."

3. Now let's take a look at grammar and construction. "are american people are...". Perhaps you mean, simply, "Are American people ...".

4. And this lack of agreement between subject and verb: "...world think." It should be, "...world thinks." Thinks, with an "s" at the end.

So, to recast your sentence in ordinary, plain English we would write this:

"Are American people really as stupid as the rest of the world thinks they are?"

And perhaps the way you have written your question answers the question; if the rest of the world does think we are stupid, your writing would strongly support their opinion.

Answer 7

I don't think the rest of the world think that Americans are generally stupid. People just think that some of America's political decisions have been unwise and could have been given much more thought. Given that, I think that America has been fortunate enough to have become the most powerful supernation today, and, consequently, have come up with some unorthodox decisions that countries of lesser power would not dare attempt.

Answer 8

I'd like to answer this in an indirect way:

In my experience the American culture is a culture of convenience and abundance.

What you find is that in general, Americans tend to have most things done for them, thus they are not attributed the mental/psychological strengths more often associated with the 'struggle to survive and succeed' in the dog-eat-dog societies.

American culture is extremely PC (politically correct) and as a result, there is less movement of free thought.'Nicey, nicey' culture tends to stifle independant thought and originality. People just kind of blend into grey.

The American education system doesn't help in that the subjects of study are insular and relate predominantly to American society and history. There is little that pushes them out of their Americanized comfort-zone. Because of this they learn little about the world beyond their own borders.

When they DO venture outside of America, their comments, behaviour and general bearing are quite unintentionally offensive to other cultures and races. This is due to their lack of education and general knowledge of the world around them.

For example, in other countries of the world Americans are well recognized for attempting to pay for goods with American currency, as though their money is somehow international. This is often viewed as a complete disregard for the way things work in other places and an arrogance that the 'American way' is superior. An attitude which smacks of disrespect and ignorance.

Ok I've said enough for now. There is alot more to be said.

Answer 9

Do American people care what the rest of the world thinks of them ? Like NO !

Answer 10

Americans are no more stupid than anybody in the rest of the world could be.

Answer 11

America has always had isolationist tendencies because of our relative insulation from the rest of the world we are surrounded by either very good friends (Canada) or countries that could never give us any trouble (Mexico) and we are far away from Europe, Asia and Africa and so this relative insulation makes us a bit ignorant as to what happens outside our borders. As the only superpower, inevitably we feel we are superior and others do not matter as much once again leading to a little ignorance about the rest of the world. We are in fact smarter than most countries in the world its just that we have a dumbass for a president and since he is supposed to represent America everybody assumes America is stupider than it really is.